The things that get you excited when you’ve spent too long looking at hex editors… receiving mojibaked invitations for the building’s Whatsapp group! (Although the text is strangely coherent when translated… so it could also be some random crossed wire from the provider)

#FileFormats #Encodings #Mojibake

Interesting Characters (UTF-16, utf-8, Unicode, encodings)

https://video.infosec.exchange/videos/watch/ae6cc8b2-f78c-4711-8188-400d5c714f4b

weird issue:
Acrobat accessibility check keeps flagging a few letters in this paragraph for encoding errors. Using Adobe Myriad, no subsetting, trying different PDF versions, all to no avail. The characters render correctly, but in the tags panel a few are missing. They also miss if copying the text.
Ideas?

#accessibility #typography #encodings

Hmmm...I wouldn't try this, but it has its use cases.

"Linux 5.2 was released over one year ago and with it, a new feature was added to support optimized case-insensitive file name lookups in the Ext4 filesystem. [...] [T]his seems like a good time as any to take a look on why this was merged, and how to put it to work."

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2020/08/27/using-the-linux-kernel-case-insensitive-feature-in-ext4/

#Linux #FileSystems #FileNames #LinuxKernel #Encodings